The cult of saints in the early Welsh March: aspects of cultural transmission in a time of political conflict

Davies, J. R. (2013) The cult of saints in the early Welsh March: aspects of cultural transmission in a time of political conflict. In: Duffy, S. and Foran, S. (eds.) The English Isles: Cultural Transmission and Political Conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500. Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 37-55. ISBN 9781846822230

Abstract

Far from the supposed propaganda of quasi-protestant Welsh churchmen resisting the incursion of ‘Roman Catholic’ Normans, the Lives of the Welsh saints were written in the main by reformed churchmen for a largely Anglo-Norman audience. Although the early Welsh March was the setting for political, cultural, and ecclesiastical conflict, we must nevertheless do away with anachronistic political and religious judgments in evaluating the nature of that conflict. In relation to the cult of saints, it has become difficult to avoid the impression that conflict was tempered by a cultural transmission which passed as much from conquered to conqueror as the other way around.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Davies, Dr John
• Authors: Davies, J. R.
• Subjects: D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• ISBN: 9781846822230

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